For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
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John 3:15-19
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
not to condemn, &c.--A statement of vast importance. Though "condemnation" is to many the issue of Christ's mission (Joh 3:19), it is not the object of His mission, which is purely a saving one.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.